Hi bonsai fellows,
due to some conversations with other bonsai guys in the comment lines, I decided to maintain this blog only for friends and regular readers. Yes, this is a personal "bonsai diary" and I´m not willing to share it with general public.
If you´re interested to follow this blog further, please send a short e-mail to igor.spasojevic@iplace.at
I´ll keep this blog exposed till Sunday, 4th of October.
Mittwoch, 23. September 2009
Freitag, 11. September 2009
Root Bale
Hi bonsai-fellows,
I have been asked in the last posting about the reason, why I was washing so many original soil out, by potting the huge mugo yamadori.
I´m not really washing a lot of soil out. Just the surface and the outer circle. An advantage is, that roots earn a chance to habituate in the new, modern substrate. I do never wash a root-bale completely out, because the whole essential mykhorizza would be destroyed.
I´m as well looking forward to remove the old substrate more and more by years. If you don´t do it like this, you run into danger that some day the roots are gonna start to rot.
For a better comprehension:
On that area where I collect pines, I´m lucky to find trees with a very compact root system. The soil on that spot is a soft humus and it´s frequently humid. These trees are low on having tap roots! The ground is made up of stones and the surface is a humus level not higher than 25 cm!!! So, a spade, a saw and garden shears are quite enough to collect a tree.
PLEASE DON´T MISUNDERSTAND ME NOW! I´m absolutely not bragging about this, but some raised a question and I´m willing to clear this!
Here are some pic´s of such pines with flat root bales:
However, in the end it´s the tree who makes the decision if he´s willing to survive or not. With or without a good root bale ....
I have been asked in the last posting about the reason, why I was washing so many original soil out, by potting the huge mugo yamadori.
I´m not really washing a lot of soil out. Just the surface and the outer circle. An advantage is, that roots earn a chance to habituate in the new, modern substrate. I do never wash a root-bale completely out, because the whole essential mykhorizza would be destroyed.
I´m as well looking forward to remove the old substrate more and more by years. If you don´t do it like this, you run into danger that some day the roots are gonna start to rot.
For a better comprehension:
On that area where I collect pines, I´m lucky to find trees with a very compact root system. The soil on that spot is a soft humus and it´s frequently humid. These trees are low on having tap roots! The ground is made up of stones and the surface is a humus level not higher than 25 cm!!! So, a spade, a saw and garden shears are quite enough to collect a tree.
PLEASE DON´T MISUNDERSTAND ME NOW! I´m absolutely not bragging about this, but some raised a question and I´m willing to clear this!
Here are some pic´s of such pines with flat root bales:
However, in the end it´s the tree who makes the decision if he´s willing to survive or not. With or without a good root bale ....
Mittwoch, 9. September 2009
Funky Yamadori Session
I decided to go and collect the next pine, but this time with my friend Harry. Harry and I got to know each other on a workshop at Pius Potter AG in Boswil, Switzerland. It´s already the 2nd yamadori hunt together - and it´s groovy!
That´s how my newest pine looked, before we started with digging.
After we took the pine out, Harry made everything tidy and planted a young pine back ... as a tribute. The next working-step was probably the hardest ==> bringing this heavy piece to the car! We had to make many pauses during this very exhausting drag towards the car and we were sweating as hell. THANK YOU, MATE!!!
The day was not only successful for me :)
The bigger the tree, as much more time you need for cleaning the root-bale and potting ... So I have finished at nightfall.
Today in the morning I continued the work with cleaning the trunk from rotted parts:
That´s how my newest pine looked, before we started with digging.
After we took the pine out, Harry made everything tidy and planted a young pine back ... as a tribute. The next working-step was probably the hardest ==> bringing this heavy piece to the car! We had to make many pauses during this very exhausting drag towards the car and we were sweating as hell. THANK YOU, MATE!!!
The day was not only successful for me :)
The bigger the tree, as much more time you need for cleaning the root-bale and potting ... So I have finished at nightfall.
Today in the morning I continued the work with cleaning the trunk from rotted parts:
Samstag, 5. September 2009
Baby Larch
This larch was also collected in nature and will be trained for accent-purposes:
(Pot by Sperling-Ceramics)
(Pot by Sperling-Ceramics)
Donnerstag, 3. September 2009
The "Grendel" Pine
That´s my newest pine and probably the dearest of them all. It has an absolute dramatic character, what I love.
I took again a young pine with me, just to replace it with the old one.
The ground was so easy, that I was even able to prick the tree out with a spade.
"The hole", before and afer. That´s how it should be ... as if nothing had happened!
Some snapshots in the garden:
When the tree hopefully grows on, I´ll pot him even steeper in the pot. I think it´s predestinated to become a literati.
I took again a young pine with me, just to replace it with the old one.
The ground was so easy, that I was even able to prick the tree out with a spade.
"The hole", before and afer. That´s how it should be ... as if nothing had happened!
Some snapshots in the garden:
When the tree hopefully grows on, I´ll pot him even steeper in the pot. I think it´s predestinated to become a literati.
Mittwoch, 2. September 2009
Another Mugo from Autumn 2008
This one was collected in October 2008 and had awakening problems in spring. It will probably last several years till this pine will be ready for first styling.
So the next step in this long-term project will be to strengthen the tree during the next few years and establish a better density. I´m looking forward to bring the green-mass closer to the trunk, more specifically down to dead wood.
So the next step in this long-term project will be to strengthen the tree during the next few years and establish a better density. I´m looking forward to bring the green-mass closer to the trunk, more specifically down to dead wood.
Dienstag, 1. September 2009
The "Wine Opener"
This one is not a sumo- or a powertree but it has it´s own particular charaker - that I like. It reminds me somehow on that tool to open a bottle of wine. Probably next time, I´ll search for a tree in the shape of a beer opener ;-)
Young Conifer in exchange for Yamadori
Hi folks,
since my shoulder is getting better I´m happily back in Yamadori quest! *Huaaa*
Yesterday I went with my dad up to the mountains and we took a small mugo conifer with us. This young tree was one of my first "bonsai" .... I bought it for a few Euro in a property market and it was probably one of the highlights in my collection at that time.
You can´t believe how hard it was, to change this litte cutie with an old, crippled and UGLY pine. I guess mother nature made a good deal with me, but hey - that´s all me! ;)
Actually, it wouldn´t be bad to do it every time you´re picking up a yamadori!
That´s the beauty, we have found:
since my shoulder is getting better I´m happily back in Yamadori quest! *Huaaa*
Yesterday I went with my dad up to the mountains and we took a small mugo conifer with us. This young tree was one of my first "bonsai" .... I bought it for a few Euro in a property market and it was probably one of the highlights in my collection at that time.
You can´t believe how hard it was, to change this litte cutie with an old, crippled and UGLY pine. I guess mother nature made a good deal with me, but hey - that´s all me! ;)
Actually, it wouldn´t be bad to do it every time you´re picking up a yamadori!
That´s the beauty, we have found:
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